“because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth”

“races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”

“If Midnight’s Children is India’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, then A Suitable Boy must be its War and Peace.”

“All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.”